Only the TTS model (~2.4 GB) is required on first run; ASR models are
per-platform curated picks (curated_on in models.yaml) installed on demand.
Every transcription surface returns a typed asr_model_missing error with a
one-click download CTA instead of silently pulling multi-GB Whisper weights.
Settings -> Models is a grouped, platform-aware catalog. New guided
permissions UX (wizard System Check + Settings -> Permissions + mic
pre-flight) with native mic-state checks and OS settings deep-links. New
parakeet-mlx engine brings Parakeet TDT v3 to Apple Silicon (language-gated
capture preference so multilingual dictation never regresses). Docs:
expressive-speech page, Flush/Unload + CPU-fallback triage, clone-length FAQ.
Hardening: preflight fails open for custom model pins, ROCm curation no
longer inherits NVIDIA picks, Windows mic probe reads the NonPackaged
consent key, CaptureWidget setup race fixed, offline-cache CI simulation
fixes so empty-cache runners stay green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RTVC (CorentinJ's 50k-star SV2TTS repo) is archived; its users need a
maintained home. New docs/migration/real-time-voice-cloning.md maps
every RTVC concept to its OmniVoice equivalent (encoder+utterance →
reference clip, toolbox → app, vocoder choice → Settings → Engines,
demo_cli.py → REST API/CLI/MCP), is honest about what RTVC did that we
don't (research toolbox, three-stage training, MIT license, smaller
footprint), and walks the first clone with verified UI labels only.
Wired into docs/features.yaml's existence-checked docs list and linked
from the README Quickstart.
README tagline now states the local-first promise verbatim at the very
top: "No accounts. No API keys. No cloud." — everything else on the
front page is unchanged.
Co-authored-by: mergetest <test@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
